This fonds consists of material relating to Ivor Dent's World War II service, teaching and educational career, political involvement including his term as Mayor of Edmonton, and his family and personal life. This fonds also covers Dr. Dent's involvement with various Commonwealth Games organizations including minutes, reports, correspondence, bylaws and constitution for both the Commonwealth Games Federation and the Commonwealth Games Assocciation of Canada. On April 11, 1984, Dr. Dent was invested as a member of the Order of Canada. MS 157.9 includes Commonwealth Games Association of Canada material, political correspondence and clippings, business material, M.Ed Thesis, and other ephemera. MS 157.10 includes Commonwealth Games Association of Canada material, primarily related to the Brisbane, Australia games in 1982, the Aukland, New Zealand games in 1990, and the Victoria, British Columbia games in 1994. This also includes some material related to Dent's activities with the CGAC. Also included inthis fonds is some personal material and other ephemera. MS 157.11 includes material regarding Ivor Dent's Order of Canada, his Commonwealth Medal for the 125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada, his real estate dealings, his political and social activities (including the New Democratic Party, Municipal Politics, Alberta's Senatorial Election, the Alberta Council on Aging, and the Commonwealth Games Association), his father Charles Lionel Dent, his son Charles Dent, and correspondence and other papers. This fonds also contains publications, including two books from Geoffrey Handley-Taylor, What Peace Means to Me, the REport of the Chief Electoral Officer on the Provincial Senatorial Election, 1989, and Kaleidoscope of Nauru, 1983. MS 157.12 contains material for the Alberta Common Front campaign against cuts to social spending, a collection of business cards, political material, and correspondence and other materials related to Dent's volunteer and business activities. MS 157.13 consists of material on the Alberta Common Front activist movement, SOS Children's Villages of Canada, Commonwealth Games Association of Canada, Victoria Commonwealth Games Society. This fonds also includes cards for the Dent's 50th wedding anniversary, material from courses Dent taught at Grant MacEwan Community College, correspondence and other papers, and a certificate commemorating Dent's acitvity as a volunteer for the International Year of the Volunteer.

This fonds consists of speeches made at the opening of Edmonton public schools.

The fonds consists of annual reports of the Edmonton Separate School Board for the years 1913, 1918, 1924, 1945-59, 1961-1963.

The fonds consists of a scrapbook of clippings and programs relating to the Edmonton Schoolboys' Band, 1936-1945.

The fonds consists of reports prepared by students enrolled in the Architecture Department in conjunction with the English Department and created in 1969 with additional material added on the Post Office in 1971. Each report contains technical and historical information on a different building of architectural significance in Edmonton. There are 28 reports in total and include commercial, educational, religious, public and industrial buildings.

This fonds consists of an invitation to Edmonton Normal School Alumni Reunion June 2, 1973, a reunion program, notes of reply to a toast to the Edmonton Normal School staff, letter, Isabel Hill, Edmonton AB to Goldwin Smith Lord, Feb. 26, 1976 re: reunion slide show.

The fonds consists of a brochure of the "Patriotic Day Service" for Edmonton schools, June 30, 1927.

The fonds consists of materials created in 1967 and consisting of the script to the play "This Hour Has Ten Decades" as well as promotional material and correspondence relating to the production

The fonds consists of programs and brochures relating to the opening of Grace Martin School, as well as a biographical sketch of Grace Martin McEachern. The material was created in 1972.

The fonds consists of materials collected by Earl Danard of Alberta and dating from 1908 to 1966. The fonds consists of a wide variety of materials acquired by Danard as a collector including business and family records, school registers and workbooks, scrapbooks, post card collections, magazines and news clippings, short history booklets and other ephemera.